Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty (Schulman Daniel)(Paperback)

Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty (Schulman Daniel)(Paperback)

Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the modern age, but they have never been the subject of a major biography... until now. Not long after the death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family

The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens (Hatcher Daniel L.)(Paperback)

The shocking truth about how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social programs meant to support disadvantaged Americans Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor

Father of the Rain (King Lily (Author))(Paperback / softback)

From one of America's most strikingly powerful and accessible talents. Father of the Rain tells the spellbinding story of a daughter struggling to assemble the shards of a broken childhood, mend her broken-down father, and build herself a

The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty (Borman Tracy)(Paperback)

England's Tudor monarchs--Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I--are perhaps the most celebrated and fascinating of all royal families in history. Their love affairs, their political triumphs, and their overturning of the religious order are the subject of countless works of

The Power of Awareness (Neville)(Paperback)

A beautiful edition of one of the twentieth century's most powerful and intriguing works on how to use the manifesting powers of your mind. Features the bonus book, Awakened Imagination.Here is a signature volume of one of the most quietly impactful and radical works ever written on the creative

Dead Land - V.I. Warshawski 20 (Paretsky Sara)(Paperback / softback)

The edge-of-seat new crime novel featuring America's toughest and most caring private eye, V.I

The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times (Barber Lionel)(Paperback)

A revealing, intimate diary from the editor of the Financial Times, the most important business newspaper in the world - encounters with global leaders, billionaire CEOs and everyone who's anyone 'As FT editor, I was a privileged interlocutor to people in power around the world, each offering

The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson (Bigsby Christopher)(Paperback)

One of America's most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth century, as seen from the perspective of black Americans. He celebrated the lives of those seemingly pushed to the margins of national life, but who were simultaneously protagonists

The NRA: The Unauthorized History (Smyth Frank)(Pevná vazba)

For the first time, the definitive account of America's most powerful, most secretive, and most controversial nonprofit, and how far it has strayed from its origins. The National Rifle Association is unique in American life. Few other civic organizations are as old or as large. None is as

Club - How the Premier League Became the Richest, Most Disruptive Business in Sport (Clegg Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

The never-before-told inside story of how the Premier League became the wildest, richest, most popular entertainment business on the

Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires (Raab Selwyn)(Paperback)

A 10th-anniversary edition of the New York Times bestselling history of the Mafia's infamous Five Families, featuring a new preface by the author. For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies, wreaking unparalleled damage on

Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann (Wortsman Peter)(Paperback)

Spanning the Brothers Grimm to Kafka and beyond, a new collection of the most strange and fantastical German stories from the past 200 years Franz Kafka posthumously cornered the nightmare market in the twentieth century. Yet in our adulation of Kafka's wonderfully bizarre prose, English-language

The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports (Robinson Joshua)(Paperback)

The Club is the inside story of how English soccer's Premier League became the wildest, richest, most popular sports product on the planet, 'a narrative that is part Great Expectations, part Game of Thrones, in equal measure.' (Roger Bennett, NBC Sports, Men in Blazers) This is a sports and

Sons of Caesar - Imperial Rome's First Dynasty (Matyszak Philip)(Paperback / softback)

The story of one of the most colourful dynasties in history, from Caesar's rise to power in the first century BC to Nero's death in AD

Catherine the Great - Portrait of a Woman (Massie Robert K.)(Paperback / softback)

The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in

Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain (Siegel Daniel J.)(Paperback)

In this New York Times-bestselling book, Dr. Daniel Siegel shows parents how to turn one of the most challenging developmental periods in their children's lives into one of the most rewarding. Between the ages of twelve and twenty-four, the brain changes in important and, at times, challenging

The Idiot (Dostoyevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov--and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and na ve epileptic Prince Myshkin-- known as the 'idiot'--pays a visit to his

The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes (Ury William)(Paperback)

No is perhaps the most important and certainly the most powerful word in the language. Every day we find ourselves in situations where we need to say No-to people at work, at home, and in our communities-because No is the word we must use to protect ourselves and to stand up for everything and

Food Processor Perfection: 75 Amazing Ways to Use the Most Powerful Tool in Your Kitchen (America's Test Kitchen)(Paperback)

America's Test Kitchen unleashes the potential of what a food processor can do with an eye-opening collection of 75 kitchen-tested recipes to make your cooking easier, faster, and better. Your food processor is a powerful tool but is often relegated to only a handful of tasks. We have always felt

L.A. Noir - The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City (Buntin John)(Paperback / softback)

The epic struggle for control of Los Angeles and the history of the 30s, 40s, and 50s in America's dream city. Now the FOX UK TV series MOB

A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors (Fleisch Daniel)(Paperback)

Vectors and tensors are among the most powerful problem-solving tools available, with applications ranging from mechanics and electromagnetics to general relativity. Understanding the nature and application of vectors and tensors is critically important to students of physics and engineering

Faraway Horses: The Adventures and Wisdom of One of America's Most Renowned Horsemen (Brannaman Buck)(Paperback)

Templars (Jones Dan)(Paperback / softback)

The remarkable story of the Knights Templar - the wealthiest, most powerful and most secretive of the military orders that flourished in the crusading

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback)

A collection of some of Tolstoy's most powerful powerful stories The violent spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life that inspired his last period of creativity produced the stories in this compelling and startling collection. They portray the multifaceted nature of desire, from idealistic romance to